In Egypt, rights groups have documented hundreds of detentions -- and at least 20 deportations -- of Uyghurs In 2017, the majority of them students at the prestigious Islamic university of Al-Azhar. In Saudi Arabia between 2018 and 2020, at least one Uyghur Muslim was allegedly detained and deported after performing the Umrah pilgrimage in Islam's holiest cities. Another was arrested after a pilgrimage and faces deportation... The families of the deported fear their loved ones have ended up among the estimated 2 million Uyghurs who have been sent to internment camps in Xinjiang in recent years. As Beijing's global influence expands, rights activists fear that even as Western nations take China to task over its treatment of Uyghurs, countries in the Middle East and beyond will increasingly be willing to acquiesce to its crackdown on members of the ethnic group at home and abroad.